Re: Does Accent Change Instrinsically?

From: Ekkehard Dengler (ED-RS_at_t-online.de)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:11:34 +0100

"brennus" <galaxym812000@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:424137e5$1_2@127.0.0.1...

> 2) Icelandic has NOT changed considerably form Old Norse. It is so
> close to Old Norse that it still preserves Old Norse sounds like au,
> ð and þ unlike the Continental Scandanavian languages (Norwegian,
> Danish Swedish).

I understand that the first element of this diphthong is now a mid-open
front rounded vowel, though, while the second is [i] (or perhaps [y]). Can
you confirm this?

Regards,
Ekkehard

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